Sorry we've been a little quiet lately. To ease you back, here's a piece done by one of our members at the Chronicle of Higher Education about using the university's progress towards sustainability as a teaching tool: “The mission of colleges and universities is to prepare students for the world they’re entering, and to do so, they need to offer students more practical experience. But students interested in sustainability are often limited to joining a recycling club or making posters about the merits of biking.

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Update: J Street’s original statement on Friday failed to acknowledge that the news report on Israeli public opinion on settlements to which it was responding referred to two polls, not one.  One poll was commissioned by the university in the settlement of Ariel.  The other was commissioned by the right-wing Independent Media Review and Analysis. Today, J Street released the following statement in response to a recent poll sponsored by Ariel University Center and IMRA: In the coming days and weeks, the settlers and their allies will engage in all manner of trickery and deceit in an effort to mislead the Obama Administration and the American public about Israeli sentiment regarding settlements. Today’s quasi-poll, sponsored by Ariel University Center, the only settlement university, and published only in the clear rightist Makor Rishon-Hatzofe newspaper and not in any mainstream Hebrew press, is a good example of the half-truths and lies that will be injected into the debate.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 11, 2009 Kathleen McPartland 530-898-4260 Week-long Course in Flora of the Western Great Basin Offered in June Flora of the Western Great Basin is being offered through Regional and Continuing Education, California State University, Chico, June 21-28 at Eagle Lake Field Station in Lassen County. In addition, Friends of the Herbarium is offering shorter workshops this summer. Registration is open now for the course and workshops.

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Week-long Course in Flora of the Western Great Basin Offered in June

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 4, 2009 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Joe Picard, Continuing Education 530-898-6105 Registration Open for After School Professional Development Institute Conference In collaboration with Butte County Office of Education and Region 2 Learning Support After School Programs, California State University, Chico Continuing Education will host After School: Start Your Engines – After School Professional Development Institute Conference, July 27-29, on the CSU, Chico campus. The conference will provide K-8 paraprofessionals, coordinators, teachers, and staff the opportunity to explore ways to develop and improve their after school programs

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(Isn’t that just a lovely sort of pontificating title) But seriously, I started a couple classes behind most of the people who are currently in my program, so I decided to catch up by taking an online class and a face-to-face class at the same time. I was totally overwhelmed by (a) the amount of reading and (b) the amount of time it took to simply finish the minimum amount of coursework required. The lesson that can be drawn from this: never, ever procrastinate! Failure will follow! So, now I write down two things that I want to get done on a given day.

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A team of 11 GU-Middleton employees helped the City of Middleton’s Community Garden Committee complete many projects on May 15, the school’s annual Community Service Day. The projects were finished just in time for the Community Garden’s “twine cutting” ceremony held the next day for the mayor, garden renters and community members. Covering a water line at the Middleton Community Garden The GU-Middleton team split into groups based individuals’ strengths to accomplish each task.

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GU–Middleton Successfully Plots Community Volunteer Project

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 22, 2009 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Lisa DeLaby, Butte College 530-895-2937 ‘Going Frugal’ Students Design and Furnish Home To Aid Charities; Tickets Available for Tours, Reception Interior Design students from California State University, Chico and Butte College are showcasing their creative talents to benefit the North State Symphony and other local charitable organizations for a unique event, “Design for the Times – Going Frugal,” taking place June 11-14. A team of 23 interior design students from Butte College and CSU, Chico, led by faculty from both colleges, will design and furnish the interior of a newly constructed home built by Aspire Homes at 2625 Swallow Tail in Chico

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‘Going Frugal’ Students Design and Furnish Home To Aid Charities; Tickets Available for Tours, Reception

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 15, 2009 Joe Wills 530-898-4143 Influential Expert on Global Economic and Gender Issues To Receive Honorary Doctorate and Give Address at CSU, Chico’s 119th Commencement California State University, Chico’s 119th Commencement will feature an address by a 1981 computer science alumna considered one of the world’s most influential women: Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, minister of foreign trade for the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). Sheikha Lubna will be awarded the Honorary Doctorate of Science at the Commencement ceremony Sunday, May 24. She will speak to graduates of the Class of 2009 at both Commencement exercises: Saturday, May 23, and Sunday, May 24.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 11, 2009 Kathleen McPartland 530-898-4260 Sherry Fox, School of Nursing 530-898-5891 Nursing Professor and Founder of Better Babies to Receive Distinguished Emerita Award The College of Natural Sciences at California State University, Chico will recognize the outstanding accomplishments and contributions of Professor Gwin Richter over the course of her career with the award of Distinguished Emerita at a reception on Tuesday, May 19 at 4 p.m. in the Physical Sciences Courtyard on the CSU, Chico campus. Richter served as a professor in the School of Nursing for 35 years, from 1971 to 2006.

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Yesterday, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar formally announced the creation of an Office of Youth within the Interior Department to create and manage programs that are intended to get youth working outside again. “The new office will build our programs, expand opportunities for young people, teach them to hunt and fish, and help us coordinate our efforts across the bureaus,” Secretary Salazar said. It is hoped that these programs will introduce youth from all backgrounds to America's national parks and forests, instilling an ethic of nature conservation and volunteerism, as well as creating new opportunities for employment.

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Unchallenged assumptions took a beating in a session from Wendell Brase of UC-Irvine at today’s Smart and Sustainable Campuses conference. Focusing on labs and IT facilities , which often have 24/7 loads and are the fastest growing consumer of energy, Brase described data center equipment used at his campus that is designed by its manufacturers to run normally at temperatures in excess of 85 degrees, but until recently was kept in a room air conditioned to 68 degrees, which requires more energy. “No one thought that we could do it differently than the way we always had, but it says right there in the manuals that you can safely operate the equipment this way,” said Brase

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Deep Energy Infrastructure at UC-Irvine

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